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Architectural support for multilanguage parallel programming on heterogeneous systems

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Roberto Bisiani,

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 22, Issue 10

Pages 21 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/36205.36180

Published: 01 October 1987 Publication History

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We have designed and implemented a software facility, called Agora, that supports the development of parallel applications written in multiple languages. At the core of Agora there is a mechanism that allows concurrent computations to share data structures independently of the computer architecture they are executed on. Concurrent computations exchange control information by using a pattern-directed technique. This paper describes the Agora shared memory and its software implementation on both tightly and loosely-coupled architectures.

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